(a.) Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.
(a.) Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.
(a.) Lasting or aged a hundred years.
(n.) The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Colorado Rapids Todd Haggerty, Centennial 38 Supporters : Best game: The 'Pids 4-3 victory in Montreal, which included a Tony Cascio sighting.
(2) During this centennial of his birth, we acknowledge the important contributions of Dr. Mann.
(3) So all they tend to do during their centennial visits is to ask the farmer whether he or she possesses a soil protection booklet.
(4) The current centennial celebration of The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston spotlights not only a history of medicine, but a history of Texas as well.
(5) The purpose of this paper is to record objectively the contribution of Annals of Surgery to the development of the science of surgery and its application to patient care in commemoration of its Centennial.
(6) Two centennial CD releases encapsulate the arguments: one out this week is a 3CD set from the Smithsonian Institution and the other is an extraordinary project in the pipeline at Rounder Records that will culminate in seven CDs and a book by the label's founder, Bill Nowlin.
(7) Musk made the comments to students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during an interview at the AeroAstro Centennial Symposium , talking about computer science, AI, space exploration and the colonisation of Mars.
(8) An established population of the eastern North American freshwater snail Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) columella Say is reported from Middle Creek and Centennial Park, Sydney.
(9) In the United States, as in the United Kingdom, we've just celebrated the centennial of Father's Day.
(10) This is a conference dictated on the occasion of the centennial of the First Chilean Medical Congress, the foundation of the first Public Health Council and the School of Medicine of the University of Chile (1889).
(11) As with all development, it is critical that there is a balanced consideration of all impacts of developments on local communities, broader regions and the state.” The regulation repeal could change the dynamics in the assessments of other controversial NSW resource projects, such as Rio Tinto’s Mount Thorley Warkworth mine, Anglo American’s Drayton South mine and Centennial’s Springvale mine.
(12) 2.32am GMT Colorado royalty speaks... Todd Haggerty, from the Rapids' Centennial 38 supporters group, also wishes to make a few things clear: Big first thought is the lineup.
(13) When approximately 93,000 fans gathered outdoors in Sydney's Centennial Park, a natural reserve, for Australasia's largest ever outdoor rock concert, there was an obvious potential for medical disaster.
(14) During discussions of our plans for a year-long centennial observance with members of our House and Senate appropriations subcommittees, congressional members urged us to set two specific objectives: making NIH better known to the American people, and presenting the attractions of the many roles in health-related research to young people who have not yet formulated career plans.
(15) At the close of the Centennial Exhibition the collection was purchased by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
(16) glycinea transconjugants carrying avrPto elicit a typical hypersensitive resistant response in the soybean cultivar Centennial, suggesting conservation of Pto function between two crop plants, tomato and soybean.
(17) We are fast approaching a centennial of New York State's institutional system, the anniversary of the State Care Act of 1980.
(18) I have never met Bob Cameron or David Moult of Centennial Coal, for example, but I wonder what drives them?
(19) Arapahoe High School is part of the Littleton school district, in the Denver suburb of Centennial.
(20) In two years, Europeans will commemorate the centennial of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, and the subsequent "July crisis" that triggered the first world war that August.
Centuries
Definition:
(pl. ) of Century
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(3) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(4) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(5) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(6) We asked our team to design the 22nd century newsroom.
(7) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(8) During the twentieth century complex medical and social changes have resulted in changing attitudes to and experiences with death.
(9) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(10) The concept of anticipation, the occurrence of a genetic disorder at progressively earlier ages in successive generations, has been debated from the early years of this century, with myotonic dystrophy as the most striking example.
(11) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
(12) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(13) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
(14) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(15) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
(16) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(17) A review of the literature reveals that the numerous procedures now available to repair the nose had already been devised by the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany and France as well as in England.
(18) The basic study of medicine of the early 18th century is described with the help of the example of Halle university.
(19) Nevertheless, the historic poll is being touted by foreign governments as the first credible election in half a century.
(20) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.